Awful Splendour : A Fire History of Canada.

Contents -- Figures -- Foreword: Mon pays c'est le feu -- Author's Note: A Boreal Burning Bush -- Prologue: White Canada -- Book 1: Torch -- Kindling -- Fire Rings of Indigenous Canada -- Fire and Frost: Tundra -- Fire and Water: Boreal Forest -- Fire and Grass, Fire and Leaf: Great Plains Prairies and Great Lakes Forests -- Fire on the Hills, Fire on the Mountains: Acadian Woods and Cordilleran Forests -- Fire and Fog: The Incombustible Fringe -- Tongues of Fire: Black Spruce and High Plains -- Conflagration and Complex -- Book 2: Axe -- Creating Fuel -- Fire Frontiers of Imperial Canada -- New Found Land -- Acadia -- The Canadas -- Far Countries -- With Fire in Their Eyes: Gabriel Sagard and Henry Hind -- "Burning Most Furiously" -- Book 3: Engine -- Containing Combustion -- Reconnaissance by Fire: Robert Bell and Bernhard Fernow -- Fire Provinces of Industrial Canada -- Dominion of Fire: Canada's Quest for Fire Conservancy -- Sea and Shield: Fire Provinces of Eastern Canada -- Fire's Lesser Dominion -- Tracer Index: James G. Wright and Herbert W. Beall -- Plain and Mountain: Fire Provinces of Western Canada -- Prosperity and Peril -- Two Solitudes: C.E. Van Wagner and Donald Stedman -- Revanchism and Federalism -- Fire's Outer Limits: Fire Provinces on the Fringe -- Internal Combustions -- Epilogue: Green Canada -- Continental Drift and Global Warming -- Fire Geography of Green Canada -- Slow Burns, Fast Flames -- Fire and Ice -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.